Evidence: | 'Despising his job in a Birmingham factory, V.W. Garratt surrounded his workbench with a barricade of boxes, set up a small mirror to provide early warning of the foreman's approach and studied the Everyman's Library Sartor Resartus when he was being paid to solder gas-meter fittings.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | V.W. Garratt |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1892 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | factory worker |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Thomas Carlyle |
Title: | Sartor Resartus |
Genre: | Fiction, Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Everyman edition |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 1032 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | n/a | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 42 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001), p. 42, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1032, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See V.W. Garrat, 'A Man in the Street' (London, 1939) pp.80-1 |
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